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So you're saying it's more competitive. How does that make the regular season less valuable?
The Official NBA Season Thread: I’m like Jayson Tatum in the Olympics I'm not playing
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Had no idea fleet was shooting this poorly.
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If you can't get into the top eight after 82 games, that's it. You shouldn't be able to get the 10 seed & try to right your wrongs.
Ending a full six month, 82 game season with 20 of 30 teams being in contention is crazy to me.
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Zion is a joke
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Facts play in should be now eliminated
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That seems like the opposite of devaluing. The whole point was to give more teams incentive to compete rather than tank. There's not that big of a gap between 7-10 in either conference to say that all those teams aren't deserving. Teams used to pull the plug right after all star weekend and now they're still trying to make the playoffs. Luka just said as long as there's a chance he's going to keep playing where he probably would've been shut down weeks ago. It literally has increased the value of the regular season
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I thought the play in was implemented to try to eliminate tanking.
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Yall want to add all star spots, add all NBA teams etc because there's so much competition.....but are against the play in?
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I’m against the play in now because I don’t want the Lakers to have to play more games before a playoff series.
If they were the 9-10 seeds I would be for it.
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Also why did y’all stop posting about those raggedy 37 wins Jordan had with the Wizards in 02-03?
Jordan wasn't on hgh bruh. He would've been in the playoffs had he knees held up.
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Jordan didn’t have the luxury of playing with Austin Reaves
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Promising yet ominous news in regards to Middleton.
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Not only did the play-in tournament give the teams in the 9/10/11 range incentive to not shut it down early, it also gave the teams in the 5/6/7 range incentive to compete to avoid the play-in tournament. You have to be more careful about trying to manipulate the matchups because you don't want to screw around and end up in a situation where 1 or 2 games can end your season. I think there'd be a lot more teams on cruise control the past few weeks without it.
lawdog1
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Everyone else is unimpressive enough to me, that I’m still rolling with the Bucks as the favorites even if Middleton misses time in the playoffs.
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Just make the 7th seed a lock and I’m cool with the play in
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Mavericks winning tonight is straight up organizational malpractice.
So par for the course.
So par for the course.
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While we're on this topic I think the NCAA national championship should be best out of 3.
Also, the NBA should adopt the NCAA possession arrow.
Also, the NBA should adopt the NCAA possession arrow.
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i will be watching Bulls-Mavs with the focus of a Finals game
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Not as funny to get a take off but lakers 7th this year and 7th the first year of play in. So you can argue it made it harder to make playoffs for lebron.They had to create the play in so Bron could have a chance to make the playoffs each year
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